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From: djheydt@kithrup.com
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Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>Your Name wrote in
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>>
>> I can't find the original message, but somewhere along the long
>> winding route of the sci-fi predicting the future topics it
>> detoured onto methods of travel and people today often having
>> longer work commutes.
>>
>> In yesterday's local newspaper there was an article about a man
>> in the UK who travels for three hours to work (and three hours
>> to get home again) every weekday by car. He travels about
>> 160,000km / 99,419 miles every year and has to get up at 3:30am
>> to travel from South Wales to almost London. It costs him about
>> £15,000 / US$24,660 per year, which includes and £1,600 in toll
>> fees and £900 per month for diesel fuel, plus the usual car
>> licensing, etc.
>>
>> By horse, that commute would have taken days, and on foot it
>> would have taken weeks if not months.
>
>I would note that this is not an unusual arrangement here in southern
>California. I would guess there are thousands, perhaps tens of
>thousands, with comprable situations. Iti sn't even noteworthy.
My husband used to work with a guy who commuted from Fresno to
San Jose; a rough look at Google Maps tells me it was about a
hundred and fifty miles each way. I forget how long it took him.
Nowadays my daughter and son-in-law commute across the Bay from
Vallejo to San Francisco; takes an hour and a half in each
direction.
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Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
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